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MONADNOCK STAKES MONDAY. One important change has been made in the program for the first week of the summer meeting at Hawthorne, which opens next Monday. The Monadnock Stakes, a one-mile selling race for three-year-olds, will be run on the opening day instead of on Thursday, as originally announced, the change being made to accommodate a number of horsemen who wish to start in the Lassie Stakes, but whose animals are not quite ready. There are thirty-one nominations in the Monadnock and, judging from the class of horses engaged, it promises to be one of the be6t three-year-old selling races of the season. Among those named are Mr. Brown. Barrack, The Lady, Bermuda Prince. Dissolute. Vain, Wax, Lamachus, Silver Coin, Goldone, Tayon, Sidbow, Louisville, Admiral Schley. Parmenion and others of equal class. Barney Schreibers entries have been accepted by the Hawthorne management. The condition books for the first six days meeting contain two entries in Schreibers name. He has the brown gelding, Floridan. by St. George— Palmetto, iu the Monadnock. and the 2-year-old bay filly. Companion, by Service— Defargilla, in the Lassie stakes. In order to keep down the fields in races in which the cheaper class of horses are named, the sort known in turf parlance as "dogs." an entrance fee of 0 will be charged at Hawthorne. With over 1.000 horses stabled at the track, and a strong demand for quarters from owners of good animals who can not now be accommodated. Secretary Letcher has decided upon this plan as the best means of weeding out the poor horses and forcing them to move to other cities. The money thus collected will be added to the purses and divided among the winners. Secretary Letcher will be at Washington Park up to 11 a. m. Saturday to receive entries for Mondays races at Hawthorne. D. F. Dres-sen will receive them at Harlem up to 10 a. m.. while horsemen at Hawthorne will be taken care of by J. K. Randolph, the regular entry clerk of the Chicago Jockey Club, who will be at the track office up to 11 a. m. Harry Robinson, the Cahn brothers, Charles Rowe and "Senator" OBrien are coming back from St. Louis Saturday night with their stables and will race at Hawthorne next week. Trainer Bowen had Interferer out for a gallop Wednesday morning with a stable boy up. The horse was feeling good and ran away with the lad covering four and three-quarter miles before he could be stopped. Some of the rail-birds saw the horse was going fast and timed him the last mile in 1 :45.
